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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform across both outlets, with a bias spread of just 0.0 points separating them. Both Al Jazeera and the Times of London framed the incident around the protesters' error, using structurally similar constructions: Al Jazeera's "mistaken for asylum seekers by protesters" and the Times's "protesters mistake Pakistan U19 team for asylum seekers" both place the act of misidentification centrally and attribute it to the protesters. The Times adds the label "anti-immigration," which provides slightly more contextual characterization of the protesters' background, while Al Jazeera's phrasing is marginally more passive. Both framings, however, emphasize the protesters' mistake rather than, for example, foregrounding disruption to the cricket team or broader immigration tensions. The shared effect is mild sympathy toward the Pakistani cricketers and implicit criticism of the protesters' error, without either outlet adopting a strongly partisan tone.